World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: The Taste of Defeat

As top strategists at Quebec (see
U.S. AT WAR) debated how best to speed the end of the war in the
Orient, the war in the Orient went on. Many people remember the Allied
military catastrophes of 1942; few knew that another occurred last
week. TIME Correspondent Teddy White describes the debacle in which the
Japanese drove Claire Chennault's air force from its principal advance
base in South China:

Some day Chinese chronicles will record the whole story of the South
China campaign in all its glory and disgrace, its heroism and...